Literature: History & Criticism

Cet ouvrage interessera l''amateur de theatre a plus d''un titre. Il propose un panorama mondial a travers 51 articles traitant de deux saisons de ...

What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert co...

Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringi...

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in Sout...

In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary ...

The present anthology is a collection of fifteen research papers which critically explore the multiple dimensions of contemporary literary theory. ...

This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institut...

Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer and ''man of a million lies'' Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis and the imaginati...

On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind not only conjoins two seemingly divergent authors but also takes on the larger picture of libertarian...

Gennady Aygis longtime translator and friend Peter France has compiled this moving collection of tributes dedicated to some of the writers and arti...

Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politic...

In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restr...

This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and crit...

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national ide...

What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetryand about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney m...

A collection of radical political fairy talessome in English for the first timefrom one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur ...

An essential history of the greatest love poem ever writtenThe Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the ...

From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonis...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...